Among the founders  of the nation stand many from Boston. For all the firebrands, the one who seemed more determined than any other to win American liberty was Sam Adams.

No... he was not a  brewer. Yes, he did make malt - one of the main ingredients in beer, but he left the brewing to those who would honor his name later as they created their  beverage in Boston.

Sam Adams was a  skilled speaker and publicist. He used the newspapers and broadsides of the day  to enflame passions and encourage action against British taxes. even the last royal Governor of Massachusetts would later say that no other man was as  effective in promoting the American position against the Crown.

Later he would serve as a representative in the Continental Congress, where he would sign the Declaration of Independence.

After the war, he would serve as Governor of Massachusetts, but things did not go so well for the old firebrand. Ultimately events would lead to the Philadelphia Convention, of which Sam Adams wanted no part. "I smell a rat," he famously said of the Convention.

As a leading Anti-Federalist he believed with passion that the proposed Constitution was a bad idea and would usurp not just the States, but the very liberties of the people for which he had worked so hard.

When the State began to debate the ratification, Sam Adams found himself elected to the State Convention...